There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
Whatever begins, also ends.
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Nothing is ours except time.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
As long as you live, learn how to live.
No man ever became wise by chance.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
A good mind possesses a kingdom.
No one can keep a mask on long.
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